The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . trenchment Committee of Governor Thomas Talbots admin-istration. He was elected to the Massachusetts vSenate in 1883, and servedas chairman of the joint Committee on Pvailroads, was a member of theCommittee on Prisons, and also on the State House Committee. Hedeclined a unanimous renomination both to the House and vSenate. Henever missed a vote in either branch of the Legislature, and he gave tothe Free Public Library and Reading-Room of his native town his salarywhile in the Legislature, both House and Senate. He was for s
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . trenchment Committee of Governor Thomas Talbots admin-istration. He was elected to the Massachusetts vSenate in 1883, and servedas chairman of the joint Committee on Pvailroads, was a member of theCommittee on Prisons, and also on the State House Committee. Hedeclined a unanimous renomination both to the House and vSenate. Henever missed a vote in either branch of the Legislature, and he gave tothe Free Public Library and Reading-Room of his native town his salarywhile in the Legislature, both House and Senate. He was for several years chairman of the Executive Committee of theRepublican State Central Committee and also for many years chairmanof the Executive Committee of the Worcester County Republican Com-mittee, and of the Congressional District Committee. He was electeda delegate from the Worcester Congressional District to the NationalRepublican Convention at Chicago in 1884. He was elected by the Legis-lature a State director of the Boston & Albany Railroad Company in 1880,.. THEODORE 0. BATES. The Worcester of 1898. 559 and served until the Commonwealth disposed of its stock in that corpora-tion. He was also for several years a member of the State Board of Health,resigning after five years of service, on account of his numerous businessengagements. He was appointed by President Hayes commissioner forMassachusetts for the proposed Worlds Fair to be held at New York in1883, of which General U. S. Grant was president, and Air. Bates was chair-man of the Executive Committee from New England. For many years he has been identified with the manufacturing interestsof New England, and is also interested in the promotion of railroads andother public works. He is president and director in several corporations,and was for a number of )ears president of the Corset ManufacturersAssociation of the United States. In the welfare of his native town he has always felt a deep interest, andhas exerted himself
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